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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by ocdtrekkie on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:27PM (#23225452)
Sure, but that only works if countries' laws find that acceptable. If China says that you have to delete something from US users if you want to do business in China, they have every legal right to do so: As the sovereign ruler of the land, they decide who does business there, and they can set any requirement they see fit.

So Balkanized rulesets might work for some countries but not others. China is well known for exercising their market size to make companies jump for them, the US is as well.

Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by pathseeker on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:42PM (#23225701)
>As the sovereign ruler of the land, they decide who does business there, and they can set any requirement they see fit.

At the potential cost of a trade war of course.

Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by ocdtrekkie on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:46PM (#23225766)
Of course. But nobody is going to war over censored YouTube comments or delisted search results, and the Chinese government is happy to push that boundary.